Saturday, July 16, 2016

History repeats itself. The world and
collective consciousness moves in a spiral, in cycles that repeat
themselves but from a different and greater vantage point. It seems
we are at a boiling point in American & world history.

From a historical perspective it feels
very much like the 60's, a time of political unrest, a fight for
civil rights & an expanded awareness of the violence perpetuated
at home & abroad. Remember that Vietnam was the first war that
really seeped into the American consciousness via Television
broadcasts. Now we have an expanded version of that technology in the
internet. Now we can get -in the moment- updates from countless
sources & events. It's all just bigger, more, all the time....it
inspires Tension, with a capital T.

In the 60's that same tension gave
birth to music, art & cooperative movements the likes of which
the world had never seen. (Unless of course you go back into history
and look at other boiling points & the creativity that was born
from those times as well.)

The point being, we have an
opportunity. An opportunity to fulfill the holey unfulfilled
promises of the light-workers of the 60's counter-culture movements;
the peace, the love, the equality...the expansion of awareness...it's
all there for us to bring into existence. But like most things,
sometimes it can be quite a struggle to birth it. It requires the
labor pains, and the extraordinary effort of it's mother. It's mother
is us. It's mother is you.

Sometimes rebirth requires a
dismantling of outdated structures...everything in this world has a
shelf-life, even ideas! Impermanence is about the only thing you can
count on, but decay is the first step towards growth. It's necessary!
It's food for the eventual new life that keeps on cycling on the
planet.

All that pain...all that violence...all
that uncertainty...let it feed you, but don't become it. Let it be
the pressure that inspires you to burst through the soil-surface of
change. Let it inspire you to make art, to write & sing songs, to
join with your fellow human beings and rebuild outdated physical and
emotional structures.

Let it inspire you to listen, maybe for
the first time in your life, to the experiences of the
other...whoever that other happens to be. Step outside your own
bubble and learn...empathy. That's what really makes us human, the
capacity for empathy.